Readings on Romeo and Juliet / Don Nardo, book editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Greenhaven Press literary companion to British literaturePublication details: San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, Description: 190 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1565106474
  • 9781565106475
  • 1565106466
  • 9781565106468
Other title:
  • Romeo and Juliet
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 21
LOC classification:
  • PR2831 .R43 1998
Contents:
The story of the star-crossed lovers / Charles & Mary Lamb -- Shakespeare simplified and improved an old story / John Erskine -- The forces driving the play's main characters / Edward Dawden -- The characters' impulsiveness is the villain of the play / Bart Cardullo -- The masquerade is the play's central reference point / Kathleen McLuske -- Echoes of Romeo and Juliet in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Amy J. Riess & George W. Williams -- The meaning of the night visit in the balcony scenes / Jill Colaco -- Physical and spiritual sickness infects the lovers' world / David M. Bergeron -- Social restrictions against illicit unions in Romeo and Juliet / Ann J. Cook -- The recurring image of the inert body in Romeo and Juliet / Brian Gibbons -- The influence of astrology / John W. Draper -- How the lovers' scenes were staged in Elizabethan times / Leslie Thomson -- Shakespeare used extensive character doubling in staging Romeo and Juliet / Giorgio Melchiori -- Editing the play's text / Barbara Hodgdon -- A film version of the play uses visual imagery to enhance the story / Michael Pursell -- The play's spirit retained in musical and artistic versions / Joseph Kestner.
Summary: An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the sixteenth-century play "Romeo and Juliet," and it's author William Shakespeare.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-184) and index.

The story of the star-crossed lovers / Charles & Mary Lamb -- Shakespeare simplified and improved an old story / John Erskine -- The forces driving the play's main characters / Edward Dawden -- The characters' impulsiveness is the villain of the play / Bart Cardullo -- The masquerade is the play's central reference point / Kathleen McLuske -- Echoes of Romeo and Juliet in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Amy J. Riess & George W. Williams -- The meaning of the night visit in the balcony scenes / Jill Colaco -- Physical and spiritual sickness infects the lovers' world / David M. Bergeron -- Social restrictions against illicit unions in Romeo and Juliet / Ann J. Cook -- The recurring image of the inert body in Romeo and Juliet / Brian Gibbons -- The influence of astrology / John W. Draper -- How the lovers' scenes were staged in Elizabethan times / Leslie Thomson -- Shakespeare used extensive character doubling in staging Romeo and Juliet / Giorgio Melchiori -- Editing the play's text / Barbara Hodgdon -- A film version of the play uses visual imagery to enhance the story / Michael Pursell -- The play's spirit retained in musical and artistic versions / Joseph Kestner.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the sixteenth-century play "Romeo and Juliet," and it's author William Shakespeare.

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